Mountain View Acres, CA
How exposed is Mountain View Acres to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Mountain View Acres lands at the 53rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,409 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mountain View Acres at the 52nd percentile, close to its 53rd-percentile risk score.
Where Mountain View Acres's buildings actually sit
78.7% of Mountain View Acres's 1,409 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 21.3% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Mountain View Acres against the rest of the country
Mountain View Acres's 53rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 13th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 40 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mountain View Acres ranks 14,865 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,590 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,371 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Mountain View Acres and the insurance market
Mountain View Acres sits in California, one of two states that legally require a wildfire-risk disclosure at sale. California's FAIR Plan, the state's insurer of last resort, ended 2025 with 668,609 residential policies after adding 21,859 in Q4 alone — the kind of market shift a 53rd-percentile score like Mountain View Acres's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Mountain View Acres
Even with 78.7% of Mountain View Acres outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Mountain View Acres's figures come from
Mountain View Acres's 53rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mountain View Acres's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.